“My father should be here today,” she added. “My father survived so many things, for him to lose his life to COVID is devastating.”
Mrs. Omar was speaking in support of House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn saying he would like a 9/11-style independent commission to investigate the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic.
In a tweet after her MSNBC appearance, Mrs. Omar declared that “accountability is long overdue for Trump’s failures.”
“Sorry to get so emotional on TV, but the lost of my father is still so painful,” she wrote. “My condolences to the hundreds of thousands of people who lost loved one to COVID. Accountability is long overdue for Trump’s failures. My father was convinced he be safer in the US and he wasn’t.”
Updated: 18 Dec 2020, 17:13
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AN AMERICAN politician has blamed her father s death from Covid-19 on dangerous criminal neglect by Donald Trump and his administration.
Ilhan Omar, who serves as the Representative for Minnesota, claims the country s high coronavirus death toll is because leaders didn t care about their lives .
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Ilhan Omar and her husband Tim Mynett earlier this year in DCCredit: Splash News
Speaking on the television channel MSNBC, the congresswoman slammed the administration s handling of the pandemic, with more than 311,000 deaths so far reported.
Sounding emotional, she said: I lost my father on June 16. I remember my dad was in Kenya, he came back into the US when Covid hit because he thought he was going to be safer here.
17 Dec 2020
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” that we may need a 9/11-style commission to study the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Anchor Chuck Todd said, “Right now, you are doing some oversight. You are leading the oversight on what’s happening with government funds and things like this, but you’re also discovering a lot of troubling things. That’s what came out of your committee, this herd immunity attempt email. We’ve also got what we’ve learned from those CDC staffers who spoke with The New York Times. Do you believe we need a 9/11-style commission, the Iraq study group, Warren Commission, you name it? Great crises have gotten us important commissions to make sure we don’t make the same mistakes again. Do we need this?”
15 Dec 2020
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Tuesday on her show “The ReidOut” that Rep. Mo Brooks’ (R-AL) upcoming attempt to challenge the Electoral College was like “seeing the old Dixiecrats revived.”
While addressing House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Reid said, “I want to ask about Mo Brooks and attempt, it feels to me like we are seeing the old Dixiecrats revived in the party. It feels like the old behavior. They are talking about holding a show vote to essentially try to negate the result of the election. Which they can’t do but make them get on the record.”
15 Dec 2020
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) should be ashamed of himself for his pledge to challenge the Electoral College.
Clyburn said, “I think Mo Brooks is being what I consider to be a very non-patriotic person. The fact of the matter is he knows that Biden won by more than 7 million votes. He knows that he got the same number of votes in the Electoral College that his candidate got four years ago. What is this all about? This is just like you said, it’s about I remember growing up they tell us I know we should ingrate the schools, but we’ll wait on the Feds to make us do it. This is the kind of thing that we thought we had behind us. Mo Brooks ought to be ashamed of himself. We are trying to work to improve the country, to improve the state. That we represent, and this is not an improvement for the state of Alabama for him to take this on.”